In 2010, I returned to Christ and his church after having lived an active gay lifestyle for over 12 years (starting in High School). Since then I have experienced major healing and significant reduction in same-sex-attraction through Prayer, Daily Mass, Reparative Therapy, and emotional healing. Every aspect of my life is better and improving every day. I am also glad to be part of a great new ministry called Joel 2:25 http://www.Joel225.org

Thursday, January 15, 2015

There has been a lot going on this week. Tonight, I found a lot of comfort in the prayer of St. Francis:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

In Joel 2:25, we would like to keep YOU in our prayers. In addition to the video-conference support groups, participants gather in small groups at several different times each day to pray using our 24-Hour Prayer Teleconference line.Currently, we have two establish daily groups that meet at the same time each day for Lauds (Morning Prayer) and Compline (Night Prayer). The prayers we use for each day are available online at:http://universalis.com/Our dedicated prayer line is up 24/7 so we hope we can add more daily groups soon including Charismatic, evangelical, and Greek Orthodox groups.If there is anything we can pray for you about or if you would like to join us in one of our prayer groups, please contact us: http://joel225.com/joel_021.htm

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

I just ran across this awesome video and wanted to share it. It's a message from the Patriarch of Alexandria (Egypt) leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church titled: "Come back to God." It's an awesome message and really interesting from an Arab-Christian perspective.

I found it on (4/25) when I was looking for a video about the Feast Day of St. Mark, the evangelist, apostle, and author of the shortest Gospel. As
you may already know, the patriarch of Alexandria (Pope Shenouda III)
is considered the "successor of St. Mark" just as the bishop of Rome
(Pope Benedict XVI) is the "successor of St. Peter." St. Mark brought
Christianity to Alexandria in 48 A.D. and was martyred there in 68 A.D.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

"Do not refrain from speaking at the crucial time, and do not hide your wisdom."- Sirach 4:23 "They have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony"- Revelation 12:11
I have a quick prayer request. I will be recording a short video about the healing that has occurred in my life over the last three years since I left the gay lifestyle. The video will be part of the Voices of Change website which is run by my friends at P.A.T.H. (Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality).For me, this is about reaching Souls and proclaiming the Truth. It goes way beyond current politics (the principalities of this present darkness). I've been fasting and praying that I can speak to hearts with Love and grace. I just finished praying a Rosary and will start recording in a few minutes. I have only recorded one other webcam video: http://youtu.be/w1_pBLuBEgw This one was part of a TV interview (via Skype) with a TV station on the East Coast. I had to get up at 5:00am and clean my room before they called me on Skype at 6:00am. (If I'd overslept, that'd been really embarrassing - LOL) ;)Anyway, this time I can prepare more and tailor my own message. I wrote out some of my own story in these two posts: "Surrendering to Christ at Disney's Gay Pride" and "Reply to my old gay bible study group." I don't want it to be just MY message though. This is God's story. I want to be open to let the Holy Spirit say what he wants to say.Btw, my friend Blake has made several really awesome videos. If you haven't already watched his, check them out here: http://myexgayjourney.blogspot.com/2013/01/real-love-vs-gay-feelings.htmlPax Christi,JeremyP.S.: One other prayer request. I got asked to speak to over 100 High School students in Confirmation at a parish on February 17th. I've never given a talk in public about this issue and certainly not to High School students. I can use some prayers about what to say and how to convey the Truth with Faith, Hope, and Love.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

I started to pray silently "Lord, bless her... I hope she has a great day..." Then the voice was a bit more direct: "PRAY FOR HER!"

I felt awkward, but I tried to strike up a conversation by saying "hello." She said "hello" back but didn't say anything else. I thought "well, I tried.. That's all I can do." Finally I turned to her and asked directly if I could pray for her. Then I noticed that her eyes were watering.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I had a really interesting (challenging, but rewarding) experience last night with my guys' bible study group.(this
is the group I mentioned before where we shot the propane tank with the
AK 47 on our last retreat: see video here:http://youtu.be/QeTz8efOoEc).Most of the guys are evangelical protestant. I'm probably the only
Catholic in the group, but we've gotten along pretty well. Last night, my friend Jason was leading and he started talking about this concept called "Divine Appointments." It's a bit of Charismatic thing I guess, but mostly it required more boldness than anything else.He started by asking us to pray for a while and listen for God to
speak and to reveal one person to each of us that we needed to pray for
or talk to that night. Then he told us first to ask God to reveal to us a place / location and to write down the first thing that came to mind.
At first I saw this cafe in my head, but I kept telling myself "no"
because it's in the gay part of town and I KNEW God wouldn't want me
going there.Then Jasonsaid:

"The 1st voice you hear is
God's voice. The 2nd voice is you trying to talk yourself out of what
you heard from God and the 3rd voice is Satan trying to convince you
that you were right and that couldn't have been from God."

So, I went
ahead and reluctantly wrote down "Cafe Brazil in Oaklawn."Then we were supposed to write down anything that came to mind about
a person. I thought of someone wearing a "white sweater, blue jeans and
white tennis shoes" - so I wrote that down. Then I thought "No person
in Oaklawn would be caught dead wearing THAT!...hello, fashion
police?!" ;)Anyway, I wanted to scratch it all out, but I left it aloneWhen
everyone was finished and we ended up splitting into small groups and
getting into cars to go find the persons we had described and pray with
or evangelize them. I was really nervous and freaked out - leading two of my non-SSA
friends (who didn't yet know about MY SSA) right into Dallas's
GAYberhood. I hadn't been there myself in over a year and it's always a
place where people are Lewd, Crude, and Socially Unacceptable (24 hours
a day!)We got there and I started saying "Let's go to a DIFFERENT Cafe Brazil" I'm sure it can't be this one!" but my friends said "NO! We're going here first. It's what YOU wrote down." We walked up and there was a guy standing right in the doorway wearing a white sweatshirt, blue jeans, and white tennis shoes.I could tell he was SSA and I froze up. Jason asked "Is that him? Is that your guy?"